CRZFawkz

CRZFawkz is a Canadian rapper and producer who was signed to the record label Flex Entertainment. He was initially signed in June 2019.

He is known for his song "Hong Kong 97", which due to it sharing a title with the game of the same name, has reached over 26,000 plays. He is one of the most consistent artists in Flex, especially in 2019. He is infamous for leaving and joining Flex Entertainment seven times, the most out of any person in Flex's history.

He became an administrator for the label on October 18th, 2021, a position which was swiftly abolished. After his repeated joining and leaving, he announced his retirement from music in August 2022; most fans and observers believe he will come out of retirement very shortly. He would release one song in 2023 titled "Vibeout" but nobody cared about it.

Pre-Flex, Fawkz-OP, & My Demons Told Me To Eat More Chicken (2016-2018)
The CRZFawkz alias was first used when CRZFawkz started posting rap songs to his YouTube channel in Summer 2015. His first rap song that he uploaded was "60 FPS", a track about having a very fast gaming PC and a diss toward console gamers. CRZFawkz released some more songs like "Mom's Spaghetti Freestyle" and "Frickin 'Scrub" before releasing the TRASH TALKING EP in November 2015.

In April 2016, CRZFawkz released his first mixtape, Ancient Frickery. This included songs like "The Street" and "Oh My God" featuring Zezus. In June 2017, CRZFawkz released his second mixtape, Lit 4 Harambe, which was followed by Fawkz-OP in December 2017, and so on. His first two mixtapes are now taken down, however, since CRZ himself finds them embarrassing to his career. A deleted song called FAF off Ancient Frickery became a meme in his IRL friend group in early 2020 due to one of his friends downloading and leaking it after he sent a private YouTube video of the song to be played through a Discord music bot. In August 2018, he released his debut studio album, My Demons Told Me To Eat More Chicken. A music video was made and released for the title track in October 2019.

Joining Flex, Summer Fawkz, & Whole Lotta Blue (2019)
CRZ had originally joined Flex Entertainment in June 2019, releasing his second studio album Summer Fawkz, as well as the tapes Fawkz-OP III and Whole Lotta Blue in 2019. The latter tape includes his hit single Hong Kong 97, which peaked at #13 on the Flex Entertainment Hot 100. He also did many features in this period, including a verse on JJ LOVES SOME GRU's The Money and Yung Spice's ''Disco Volante. ''CRZ would depart from Flex Entertainment for the first time in October of 2019 before returning in December of 2019.

Icy Records, CRZRecords, & the death of CRZRecords (2020)
In February 2020, CRZ joined Icy Records while not being in Flex due to him departing from the label on January 16. After a couple weeks of being in Icy Records, E.M.B.E.E asked CRZ if he wanted to be executive. He said yes, so he became exec of the label. Sometime in March 2020, E.M.B.E.E and CRZ went looking for new signees, and they discovered a few artists from a GTTC server, most notably Interbrain, who is now a Flex artist.

Due to controversy in May 2020, CRZ left Icy Records and signed to Flex on May 27. Shortly after, which would last a month until he left Flex again on June 30 and rejoined Icy Records. In early July 2020, MC Icy left Icy Records and stepped down from owner, giving ownership to CRZFawkz. So, CRZ renamed the label to CRZRecords. During this time, him and the other execs signed notable people like Lil' Diabetes & sammy the fish. There were even some album releases on CRZRecords, including Grawlix Pt. 2 by sammythefish.

On August 17, 2020, another controversy involving Flex admins going into a signing spree and signing a bunch of CRZRecords artists to Flex made CRZ feel like he had no choice but to leave the label and step down from executive, so he gave ownership to E.M.B.E.E and then the label was renamed to Billion Dollar Records. BDR would then go on to sign very notable artists like Lil Sperm, and also had legendary album releases like To Pimp A French Fry & SPERMPAC. From the time BDR began, CRZ stayed independent for around a month, until Lil Flexer signed him back to Flex on September 20th, 2020.

Returning to Flex, Trash Talking 2, & Various Singles (Late 2020)
After returning to Flex in September 2020, CRZFawkz didn't release any music for about a month, but he did contribute production and a verse on Yung Lambo's The Swamp. He released the single Stevie Bricks (Dreams) in October 2020. Brad Taste in Music tweeted the track, which boosted it's views and got it higher onto the Flex Hot 100. It was also featured in the Flex Entertainment article Our Favorite Flex Entertainment Songs of 2020. He released a remastered version of Damn Guap in early November.

CRZFawkz had not released any projects on Flex for most of 2020, until November 2020, where he released his 16th EP, Trash Talking 2, on November 22. Shortly before, he also featured on 2 songs on Voda Wake's Voda SZN. He dropped a few more singles in December 2020, Chad Taste in Music, Damn Guap 2.5 with 57W1ZARd, & Dogs in Tha Mansion.

Fawkz-OP V, UGANDAN BANDS 2, I Made This Mixtape In A Livestream & CRZ (2021)
CRZ began plans to work on and release his third studio album in 2021. At first it was titled Zero Fawkz Given and was expected to be released in the spring or summer of 2021. The album is said to feature CRZFawkz exploring a number of different genres, and dramatically changing his sound and approach to music. While a tracklist has not yet been revealed, a concept tracklist created by Lil Squeaky has been stated to greatly influence the actual tracklist of Zero Fawkz Given. However, the final project was instead titled CRZ, releasing on September 17th, and is vastly different from the then Zero Fawkz Given.

He released another mixtape called Fawkz-OP V on February 17th, 2021. It comes in two parts / sides, the first part being My Demons Told Me To Eat More Chicken 3, and the second part being Fawkz-OP V. Various singles followed, including Damn Guap Super Remastered, I Admit 2, a 4AM Remix with Lil Squeaky, and a Bands & Sticks On Me Remix.

He is notorious for releasing many other projects in 2021, however this just included a joke "album", one EP, and 2 deluxe editions, which were only released to increase his total entries on the Flex Entertainment Hot 100.

He also appeared twice on the Flex Gang, Vol. 3 compilation album, first on Air Jordans 3 by Tending Bike, and his own song, Magic, featuring Young Seagull. He actually contributed to around 6 submissions, however some of the rest appeared on 2 Flex Fridays, and the others are expected to appear on Flex Fridays: The Definitive Collection, which is set to release in April 2021. He would leave Flex again due to going on hiatus in April 23 before joining back on May 3, 2021.

Throughout 2021, he had done various features, including appearances on Moonquake by Wild Wes & WT On A Tractor Deluxe by WT. Later on in the year, he appeared on Intergalactic: The Space Age by Wild Wes and Voda. by Voda Wake aswell. Later features from him included several appearances on Lil Soz's Soz-OP, an appearance on Wild Wes's Diary of Da Wild One and an appearance and production credit on Tending Bike's Subzero 2.

He dropped another mixtape called UGANDAN BANDS 2 on June 5th, 2021 which was his memiest project to date with features from Yung Lambo, Young Seagull, Tending Bike, Lil Stuart Little & Wild Wes. A deluxe was planned but then scrapped.

On July 30th, he fully produced Lil' Diabetes's 4-track mixtape I Made This Mixtape In A Livestream also appearing vocally on one track. The mixtape was reviewed with mixed opinions with lots of people saying it was a normal Lil' Diabetes project with CRZFawkz randomly put in.

On September 17th, 2021, he dropped his then-third studio album, CRZ. The album contains guest appearances from TWIGEY, Lil Pony, Wild Wes, Lil' Diabetes, Lil Jdog, Reysosexy, Iansostoop, CrazyMowerMan & RobotDave. The album was overall met with mixed to rarely positive reception, although most of the full reviews described it as mediocre. It later got more negative reviews. Lil Creamy, who was originally a fan of CRZ later called it "SO ASS" and "A pile of shit in an otherwise half decent discography" with MC Icy giving it a more positive but bigger, more broken down review. In the end, they were both disappointed at the end product. By April 2022 Fawkz changed the format of it to a mixtape, as he did not want CRZ to be what his third album was.

On October 18th he became a Flex administrator. He later dropped 2 mixtapes titled Yung Admin and Traphell 3 on his birthday, November 5th, 2021. It had features from Tending Bike, Lil' Diabetes, Adam Raps, Creativiting Band, Interbrain, Scrub Kid & Young Plant. It was considered a double mixtape, however, the 2 tapes were later put out as separate projects.

Drenched In Sauce, THE GLIZ, CR&B & Retirement from music (2022)
In January 2022, he "dropped" a leaks EP titled Drenched In Sauce, however it is an unofficial release. CRZ had not dropped an official song since the 2 mixtapes from November 2021, besides the single "I'm God" with Lil Squeaky & Litty Lean, released on March 4th, 2022, until later.

On March 25th, 2022, he dropped a new song called "Serious Chips". It was a very Pharrell-inspired banger-oriented song. He then announced on March 27th that a "Huge music announcement" was coming the next day. It turned out to be a new mixtape called THE GLIZ. It dropped on March 29th, 2022. He dropped a few more singles from May to July which were all melodic trap / cloud trap, as opposed to his usual "meme" style songs. On July 2nd, 2022 he left Flex due to having personal issues with the direction and choices being made for the label, however he ended up returning the following Saturday, choosing to still be open to doing all styles of music as he always has wanted to do music for fun.

On July 19th, 2022 he released an R&B song called "Crystal" featuring Tending Bike, which was a teaser of what was to come for a next full project's sound. The single was met to varied acclaim, with some just thinking it was middle of the road. He then released another single, "Bitch I'm Up" with an accompanying music video on August 4th, 2022 which had lyrics that were written in 2018 for what became a moderate hit on Genius for a song that never before the single's actual recording existed. The song was met with greater acclaim than Crystal had initially and became a meme in Flex due to CRZ supposedly being "off the jeans" which implied that he had to have smoked jeans.

On August 7th, 2022 CRZ announced his third studio album, which would widely become perceived as his magnum opus: CR&B, set to release the same day. He revealed the cover art and tracklist aswell in the announcements chat and on Instagram. Many people seemed to be hyped for it due to the apparent R&B switch, and looked forward to it. After the premiere started at midnight on August 8 from track 1 and on it already was getting much more acclaim than most of his other recent music output. By the end, everyone enjoyed the album with very positive reception, mostly including 8 and 9/10s and even 10s or near 10s from famed and must-sign former Flex artists Lil' Diabetes and Wild Wes. The singles that previously got mixed reception, Crystal and Bitch I'm Up also seemed to have grown on people. Prestigious mid-poster Lil Squeaky let him escape MidWorld by a wide margin, giving the album a 9.5 and being blown away by the production and aesthetic. Wild Wes called the production "insane" and Lil Creamy was 90% positive despite not enjoying the vocals. Many people appreciated the direct style and vibes that the album was going for aswell as the fact that many different types of R&B and pop were used including Pluggnb, Pop R&B, Blue-Eyed Soul / Yacht Rock, Disco Rap and even Dancehall. As of release morning it has over an 81 in userscore on AOTY based on 13 ratings, the most ratings that a CRZ project has ever gotten on the site, and the most positive userscore to date. The album is also considered a cornerstone of the genre-switching movement spearheaded by Squeaky's It's Just Different album.

On August 26th, 2022, CRZ announced his retirement from music due to a "lack of inspiration," and had to leave Flex as a result. This decision was widely criticized, as people don't want to accept that he no longer has passion for music. While he has left Flex 7 times, he felt at this point the inspiration just wasn't coming back. In September 2022, he announced that a deluxe edition of CR&B with 4 bonus tracks was coming to streaming, which were extra songs recorded during the album era. "All For Me" was a song intended to be a reprise to Crystal in the main album, later replaced with the duet Romeo & Juliet, while the 3 other new tracks were recorded after for a deluxe.

Controversies
In late October 2019, CRZ banned Lil Squeaky from the Flex Entertainment fan discord server for referencing his song lyrics from a song off Jews In The Ghetto, Vol. 1. This caused minor controversy, and also is the reason why mod permissions were taken away from the Flex Artist role. He had apologized to Squeaky shortly after, however it lives on as a very niche fact about Flex's Discord history. A similar event had happened years later during the night of the CR&B premiere when Hood Guy kicked Lil Squeaky from the server.

CRZ leaving Flex in late June 2020 caused minor controversy. Because of this, he was almost taken off Lil Squeaky's God Mode album. However, the feature was so fire that Squeaky kept him on it. CRZ's verse was so well received that it is sometimes known that it "saved his career"; he was signed back to Flex not too long after, and became a staple feature artist on countless songs by other artists.

On July 6, Lambo revealed that CRZ had ranked xofilo's "Stardom 2" over the beloved trap album "ASTROWORLD." Squeaky, Hood Guy, and many others proceeded to dunk on CRZ for this take in the takes and tiers chat. This came days after CRZ had left Flex Entertainment on July 2 for the seventh time. It was seen as a funny argument at first but it ended up dragging on for ten minutes. CRZ felt some type of way about this and decided to leave the discord server as well as unfollowing everyone related to Flex. Many people joked that CRZ was trying to become a part of the "A.J. people", a hyperpop/melodic trap circle. After learning that the jokes had crossed the line, beetlebat put out a message in the takes & tiers chat telling everybody to respect people's opinions or they would be removed from the chat. Hood Guy and Lil Squeaky would apologize to CRZ in DMs; Squeaky later called the apology "bitch ass shit". On June 10, 2022, CRZ returned to the Flex Entertainment roster as a Discord server moderator once again like nothing happened. Beetle criticized this decision and felt like CRZ needs to think long and hard before trying to leave like this. His apparent retirement from music in August and leaving Flex AGAIN as a result was widely criticized as impulsive and nonsensical.

Trivia

 * He is 21 years old, meaning is was likely the third oldest person in Flex, the second and first oldest being Big Baller B and Young Seagull respectively.
 * He has over 40-ish released projects, meaning he has one of the biggest discographies in Flex history. This doesn't include ones that were deleted or lost. (Ligma 5, Lit 4 Harambe, DEM BOIS DAT DAB, CRZFawkz (The Yellow Album), Give No Fawkz, Thirst Trap, etc.
 * He is well known for helping upload a lot of content to the Flex Entertainment YouTube channel along with having the most subscribers of any flex artist on their personal channel, even beating out Flex Entertainment owner Lil Mosquito Disease.
 * His musical influences are ITSOKTOCRY, Gunna, MadeinTYO, and Yung Skrrt. His production influences are Wheezy and Yung Skrrt.

Albums

 * My Demons Told Me To Eat More Chicken (2018)
 * Summer Fawkz (2019)
 * CR&B (2022)

Mixtapes

 * Ancient Frickery (2016)
 * Lit 4 Harambe (2017)
 * Fawkz-OP (2017)
 * Traphell (2018)
 * Meme Dreams (2018)
 * Fawkz-OP II (2018)
 * The Holy Tape (with Zezus) (2019)
 * Ugandan Fidget Spinner Slimenite (2019)
 * Traphell 2 (2019)
 * The Blessed Lean (with Zezus) (2019)
 * Fawkz-OP III (2019)
 * Whole Lotta Blue (2019)
 * My Demons Told Me To Eat More Chicken 2 (2020) (released independently)
 * FAWKZ-OP IV (2020) (Released under Icy Records)
 * Yung Exec (2020) (Released under Icy Records)
 * Fawkz-OP V (2021)
 * UGANDAN BANDS 2 (2021)
 * CRZ (2021)
 * Yung Admin (2021)
 * Traphell 3 (2021)
 * THE GLIZ (2022)

EPs

 * Trash Talking (2015)
 * DEM BOIS DAT DAB (2016)
 * Let It Mine (With Young Plant & Zezus) (2018)
 * Autism 2 (2018)
 * Autism 3 (2019)
 * Autism 4 (2018)
 * Royalty (with Young Plant) (2018)
 * Autism 5 (2018)
 * Autism 6 (2019)
 * Autism 7 (2019)
 * Ligma 2 (2019)
 * Ligma 3 (2019)
 * Ligma 4 (2019)
 * Ligma 5 (2019)
 * Rubber Steve (with Young Plant) (2019)
 * Trash Talking 2 (2020)
 * SANDROP (2021)
 * Autism 8: The Hiatus Tapes (2021)

Memetapes

 * Tha CR (2020) (released under Icy Records)
 * Tha CR 2 (2020) (released under CRZRecords)
 * Tha CR Live (Tha CR 2 Deluxe) (2020) (Released under CRZRecords)

Joke Albums

 * Sace Icewrist (2021)

Unofficial

 * Drenched In Sauce (2022)

Production Discography

 * Zezus - Walk This Way (2017)
 * Travis Scotch - The Evolution of Music (2019)
 * Zezus - Racks On Stacks (feat. CRZFawkz) (2019)
 * Tending Bike - Mini Van (feat. Lil Toy Yoda) (2020)
 * Tending Bike - H8TRZ (feat. Leggoland) (2020)
 * Tending Bike - Coastin' (2020)
 * Tending Bike - Flexxin (feat. JJ LOVES SOME GRU) (2020)
 * Tending Bike - Coolaid (feat. Hood Guy) (2020)
 * Lil Stuart Little - Realest (2020)
 * Yung Lambo - The Swamp (feat. CRZFawkz) (2020)
 * Lil' Diabetes - I Be Flexin' (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - A Yanging Song (It's Wrong) (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - Fawkz Streams (2021)
 * Lil Stuart Little - Cheese (produced with Ratburn Da Creatah) (2021)
 * Tending Bike - Frostbite (feat. CRZFawkz) (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - Betes On Betes (2021)
 * Voda Wake - 100 On AOTY (feat. CRZFawkz & Lil Karat Stixx) (2021)
 * Voda Wake - Trappin' (feat. Jay-Z) (2021)
 * Lil Stuart Little - Fool For That (feat. CRZFawkz) (produced with Ratburn Da Creatah) (2021)
 * Lil Stuart Little - Uncatchable (produced with Ratburn Da Creatah) (2021)
 * Lil Stuart Little & CRZFawkz - Miss The Cheese (2021)
 * Lil Stuart Little - Mice&B (feat. Young Seagull, CRZFawkz, & Yung BINK$) (produced with Ratburn Da Creatah) (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - I Got The Hiccups (2021)
 * WT - Breathin (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - Stealin' Tha Flow (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - Old School Mode (feat. CRZFawkz) (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - I Took Your Girl To The Bathroom (2021)
 * Lil' Diabetes - ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (2021)
 * Lil Squeaky - Freestyle 2 ($wag) (2021)
 * Lil Soz - A Very Unique Song 4 (2022)
 * Kenny Mgee - GET THAT SHIT (feat. Lanze) (2022)
 * Tending Bike - Betrayed (feat. White Fury) (2022)
 * Kenny Mgee, Lil Mosquito Disease, Lil Squeaky, & Beetlebat - Never Going Down (2022)